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Contact Info
Home Town Scranton, Pa
Last Address 6861 Jackson Taylor, Michigan 48180
Date of Passing Oct 05, 2005
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Last Known Activity:
Worked at the Central Terminal Building in Detroit, Michgian as a
mail worker. Then to Burt Patterson as a jewely maker.
Moved to Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1949. Then to Taylor, Michigan
in 1953. Retired from the Allen Park Presbyterian Church a
a janitor. Passed away on Oct. 5, 2005.
Other Comments:
My dad loved to see his shipmates from the USS Bearss.
He went to alot of the reunions, me and my wife gave the
group a large model of the ship, with the last command
flag. He loved it the most, over of all of his pictures and memories.
The ship really turned the battle of Attu. They sank (5)
japan ship during the ship time stationed there!
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
